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Rupali, 17, Nepal. Tailor.
"Thinking about what I'd like to do makes me feel sad, because I don't know if I'll be allowed to do it. I've been married for five years – since I was 12 – but I haven't gone to live with my husband yet. That's happening in about three weeks' time, when a ceremony called Gauna will take place. I have a lot of feelings about it all – far too many feelings to ever put into words.
I was so young when we were first engaged, and now I have to go and live with a completely new family, even though I've never met them before. I haven't told my parents this, but I'm very, very scared. I just wish they had asked me for my permission. I don't even know how old my husband is.
So when I say I want to be a tailor, that's true. But I know I won't be the person who gets to decide if that's my destiny or not." |